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I own the book and have read most of it (not deeply). I'll need to actually study it and have reserved a decent time slot for that next year.

I think the concepts are fascinating but the representation is somewhat meh. Wolfram seems to be quite fond of himself. That ebing said I don't understand why people would not want to read the book because they "don't like" Wolfram.

I recommend it to anyone really it got me thinking about some pretty interesting ideas.
Just be open minded and treat it as a "creative tickler" and not a ridid new science :)
When does effective free-to-play design become an ethical matter?
"Players can play the entire game from the map mode. Zoom in close enough and you can even see individual bullets flying around the levels."

I don't remember that from the original Doom? I didn't think you could see any other 'things' on the map, let alone that the bullet weapons are hitscan so don't have any projectiles flying about.

Am I misunderstanding what they mean here? Or is my memory just failing me?
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So you have already decided that your four week old daughter wants to become a programmer? Why not wait and see how she feels?

At the dawn of programming, it was stereotyped as a profession for women (yes, really). Later on, men became more prevalent. But it's not like women were ever barred from the field, or from getting an education in general. In fact, nowadays most people who graduate from university are women.

Given all that, I get the impression that the constant hand-wringing about the dearth of women in tech is more about companies hoping to expand the labor pool for what is still a highly-sought and well-paid profession, rather than about empowering women to do what they want. The former is still a legitimate concern, but not something a father needs to lose any sleep over.
>partly counterproductive

Partly? We've managed to destroy two countries, waste billions of dollars, lose essential human rights and fall into a recession. What part of that was productive, exactly?
> Also I don't have the ability to downvote crappy answers because I'm not special enough or something ...

You need to accumulate 500 karma points, after which you can downvote. This is to prevent people opening throwaway accounts and instantly downvoting something they don't like.
No, it's the chemicals that make it evil. Organic rails are good for you.
http://ladygeek.com/team-2/ <-- where is programmer geek?
I recommend the book mentioned at the end. It's very good.
What a coincidence, I've been playing Doom 2 for the first time over the last couple of days. I've also recently replayed the first, but I had actually played that back when I was in primary school (behind my parents back of course).

I'm surprised just how much fun it still is and if you use something like ZDoom [1] (which I have been) you can literally just run the binary with no setup and it runs flawlessly on a modern system.

One thing that really stuck out to me as I've been playing it is that there really isn't anything from modern shooters I miss. I'm not trying to diminish the work that has been put into AI, Physics, Graphical fidelity etc, but what does it say about the genre when you can remove all the innovations over the last 20 years and it's not any less "fun"?

[1] http://zdoom.org/
I'm not sure what I'm more amused by. The fact that you don't realize that the fashion industry is dominated by men, or that the societal importance of the demographics of the tech industry can be compared to that of the fashion industry.
Do you mean Linux did the "cut corners / spread like a virus" thing in the beginning and caught up technically once it dominated mindshare?

I think it's not really the same thing as "worse is better" when you are comparing a implementation effort started from scratch competing with a legacy code base. Of course it will have less features at first. The (more) open development from the start, friendlier community and BSD fragmentation then won people over.
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That sounds like the assisted routing we are working on. Now we are focusing on getting the parts search a lot better. It will be amazing and should be online in a few days.

To change the layer you have to push 'l'((l)ayer) not '|'. Sorry about that it must be the font we use. Thats a good idea to have a custom keymapping! We will look in to that.

We are also working hard at version control, visualization between commits and more social features,...

Thanks for the feedback!
Apply to CS grad schools. See if you can work with any researchers or professors that will lead to publishable work. Read through their papers so you can see what they are working on and try contact a few people that have the same interests you do. (You mentioned genetic algorithms, neural networks and functional programming.) I've trying to do the same thing at the moment. Contact info is in my profile if you have questions. Good luck!
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It would like to see Marc and Rap Genius engaged in the open Annotation effort.
We require a LARGE quantity of money and the services of a team of _mega-hackers_ to write the software for this system. Most of the hardware devices are, even as you read this, available as off-the-shelf items, just waiting to be plugged into each other so they can put an end to "THE RECORD BUSINESS" as we now know it.

The call to disrupt, decades too early. The media landscape might look very different if Zappa had gotten somewhere with this.
I had the same thought. My presumption would be that laptops are inherently personal, since the whole point is to take it with you, whereas you could hand off a desktop to an underling and make them work it for you.
When you think of it, those two stories are the consequence of one huge problem. Globalization, and financial empires don't give a fuck about human beings. This poor mother in China is dying because a whole chain of power/money holders don't give a dman about what could be an insect for all they care. Same for Zinga : no respect for the human beings whose income depends on what decisions the leaders make. Only, yes, i agree with you, nobody died at Zinga yet. That chinese mother did die.
I think Zappa was very well aware of the technical side as well, being a Synclavier[1] 'geek' since 1982.

I do think it was quite revolutionary, since he is effectively proposing unlimited streaming of music at a fixed monthly cost:

The consumer has the option of subscribing to one or more Interest Categories, charged at a monthly rate, without regard for the quantity of music he or she decides to tape.

Sure, technically, it might be obvious. But, within the traditions and economics of the music business, such a proposal was quite revolutionary in 1983.

Or in Zappa's words:

We require a LARGE quantity of money and the services of a team of mega-hackers to write the software for this system. Most of the hardware devices are, even as you read this, available as off-the-shelf items, just waiting to be plugged into each other so they can put an end to "THE RECORD BUSINESS" as we now know it.

(I had to grin reading the word 'mega-hackers' ;))

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synclavier
Have you noticed how Github helpfully shows which words have changed inside a line when looking at diffs? If we stop teaching people to bend over backwards to accomodate 70s technology, maybe we'll have more young hackers fixing our tools.
I think such a service would be great. Last night in the middle of a very long coding session I got stuck on getting a particular SQL query working right for a couple of hours. I got a little help and some hints in #mysql on freenode, but I eventually needed to work it out myself. When I come across an issue like this that blocks progress on the project I'm working on, I'd love to have a service where I can drop some cash on getting help from an expert when I need to find a solution quickly.
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Can anyone explain the capitals in this title? I'm guessing they are correct. But they look erratic / strange / stupid from this pov. Not my native language, so where can I read up on how you'd decide whether to hit shift or not - hoping that it isn't arbitrary.
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Matter of opinion but I'd rather read a book on my Kindle than on paper.

Much of that is down to the mechanics of page turning and the bulk which don't apply to all paper but while it has a lot going for it, the clear edge that paper once had is far more open to debate.
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Indeed. His sardonic attacks on everyone, including himself, are priceless. And he was a great composer and guitarist as well... I still can't listen to We're Only In It For The Money or Overnite Sensation without bursts of laughter.
I suspect he said 'mega-hackers' because he wouldn't have wanted to say 'rockstar programmers' given that he was an actual rockstar.
He's said that it's possible that he'll move it to web at some point in the future.

I think people should view this as iOS first rather than iOS only. I think it's a pragmatic decision rather than some sort of "iOS or death" principal.
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From the perspective of your eyes that's true, from the perspective of your body that has to hold the device and get comfortable and the overall resulting experience, I'd say that the Kindle (or similar eBook reader) wins for me.
Sure, but Zappa's not proposing to use a computer to playback the music. He's proposing a digital download of the music being transferred either onto analogue audio tape or digital tape.
They will be posted at some point they said.
> Can anyone explain the capitals in this title? I'm guessing they are correct.

There's no "correct" outcome for an all-caps title, it's a stylistic choice. Neither right nor wrong. Another example of a stylistic choice is The Register's oft-exercised habit of emphasizing! a! title! like! this!.

> where can I read up on how you'd decide whether to hit shift or not - hoping that it isn't arbitrary.

Sorry, you can't read a rule on this practice, Because It Is Entirely Arbitrary.
Also check out this old thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2403031
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Heroku as a highly abstracted PAAS built over AWS should definitely make it easier for beginners. AWS is there if you need to hit the metal any time. Also the cost of Heroku abstraction is the flexibility you sacrifice in order to get things off the ground faster. You also lose out on new services introduced on AWS regularly or have to wait till similar functionality is available on Heroku.
I'm guessing desktops were significantly cheaper, and could therefore start from the bottom where people were younger, didn't really care or had other issues (and didn't have secretaries to start with). The price of early laptops meant only higher-up execs were able to get them, and those were generally older men who had had secretaries most of their life (or who had just had secretaries attached to them, these secretaries becoming a status symbol of having "made it")
"... Because charging for content on the web doesn't work. ..."

How much would you pay for a magazine? Wonder if there's a market for printing magazines that use an iOS/web framework like zine ~ http://blog.zeen.com/2012/09/18/the-way-you-zeen-futuremed-u...
First (business) desktop computers (I'm guessing / basing on my knowledge from back then, visacalc!) weren't targeted at execs. They were target at accounting who were use to 10key and probably one of the early adopters of mainframes+terminals.
Yes, it's sad that he became to ill before his planned run for president. Although he'd have failed miserably, even the thought of seeing him debating with Bush and Perot is worth something ;).
I've seen some places hire exclusively for these positions so yes. Tell your friend to check out job listings with slicing as a job description
Quora had potential, but is dead now. And I mean literally.
Here is my $0.02:

I believe that the tech industry is dominated by men, that's a given, but I don't necessarily believe that we need more women, or even more men. At the moment, the tech industry has a surplus of jobs and not enough bodies to fill the desks, so what we need is more people, irrespective of age, gender, race, etc.

In my opinion, it is extremely sexist to even suggest that we need more women in tech, it implies that the (large amount of) men who are currently in the industry are not doing their jobs correctly and should be replaced by women, that women would do a better job; granted, some women would do a better job, but so would some men.

You can not force equality (a thing which you already have) upon the masses, but look at it like this, there aren't less women in tech because men don't want them there, there are just less women who are inclined to go in to technology, this isn't a case of "Male oppression is forcing us not to follow our dream", it's merely a case of less women having this dream.

Let's be honest, from our earliest childhood years, we are given this impression that certain activities are for certain genders, and yes, to some degree this is wrong, I happen to like the colour pink and my sister absolutely loved playing in dirt, to my mothers disdain, but these young character building years are what defines us, the fact is that there are two genders, not one, and they are not always equal, we need to celebrate these differences instead of trying to subdue them in to none-existence.

Personally, the finest developer I have ever met was a woman, so I have nothing against women in tech, but let's look at the fact, from a young age, boys are taught that playing computer games is a boys thing, playing these games often fosters a natural ability to understand computers.

If you play model of honour enough times, you begin to recognize the path finding model which the computer takes, and at a very primal level you begin to understand the most simple AI elements, this experience builds your understanding of how computers works. I'm not saying this is the only way to get in to computers, I'm just giving the example which was relevant to myself.

tl;dr: Stop blaming men for the lack of women in tech, take a look at your own base camp, men have given you equality for years now, just accept that most women don't want to go in to tech; not because they are women, but because, let's face it, we're a big bunch of nerds and foreveraloners and most sane people would do anything they could to stay out of this space.
Since we are on history anyway, does anyone know of a good answer to my question?

http://serverfault.com/questions/5095/historical-question-wh...
Try an opensource PaaS like Cloudfoundry. You can use cloudfoundry with bosh to spin multiple ec2 instance and deploy across all of them and you can scale up and down as you want.

I am not affiliated with Cloudfoundry and earn no money from them neither do i have any formal relationship with Vmware. I am bullish on cloudfoundry and use bosh multi-instance and multi-cloud deploy. You can see how cloudfoundry works by testing the commercial version on cloudfoundry.com and the opensource community based articles on cloudfoundry.org.

You can run Java, Ruby, Node, Python, PhP tec and comes preinstalled Postgresql, Mysql, Mongodb, Redis, Rabbitmq.

Go give it a ride.
From the article, it sounds like the laptop marketers were targeting top executives, presumably because (1) they travel a lot and (2) they have command of a big enough budget to spend $8K of company money on a tech toy.

For those who don't travel, it would have been difficult to justify the greater expense.
You're right of course, but if you take that to the extreme, styling a clickable action with a coloured square is skeumorphism too (it's still a button). The way I see it, the concept of a button has long since tracended into a metaphor in the visual language of UI. Where it used to mimic the physical world, it has since been reduced to a symbol. I think that most people would say that the beveling effect is part of this symbol. If that is the case, then Metro tries to redefine an established symbol. This isn't unique per se - languages evolve all the time, but it does explain why a lot of people might be confused of it.
In the Android example, I can see why they limit low-priority processes to a fraction of total resources: to avoid silently draining the battery. Android runs on phones, and using 100% CPU on a phone is a great way to kill battery life. Allowing higher usage would lead to users getting annoyed at their phones (and Android in general), when really blame would lie with poorly-written apps they installed.

But I agree with you about the Linux patch. Considering the performance impact, it seems irresponsible not to implement the best solution. The kernel isn't some web app where everyone gets the latest version automatically. Bad code in the kernel sticks around for a long time.
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I hate the expression 'working in technology'. Because it does not say anything about what a person actually does or knows or likes. (For example I am a prototypical hacker/programmer, but not working in the 'tech industry'. I work as a software developer in a different industry right now (with lots of woman coworkers by the way).)

So the author wants more women in marketing. (tech-marketing) Ok. But if my now 5 year old daughter will be interested in programming, math, algorithms, I will not force her to learn marketing just because Belinda Parmar says so. Yes I will be happy to talk about marketing with my daughter when she grows up, I am interested in marketing, but I equally happily will talk about the beauty of Hindley–Milner type inference with her.:)
Perhaps games should have an 'All-Unlocked' version along side their free to play with IAP version...?
> Linus Torvals was a much better community manager than Bill Jolitz.

Must be, I don't remember ever hearing of Bill Jolitz. And I've used (Open)BSD to build firewalls back in the day.
> The only thing I would suggest is always prefering [[ to [ because it makes dealing with parameter expansions much more easier.

I wrote the article before Bash 3 was released, and the article remains appropriate for platforms that don't have Bash 3 abilities. If you read down in the article, you will see where I address this issue:

http://arachnoid.com/linux/shell_programming.html#Bash_Versi...
For the curious: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/30/yahoo_scheider_ko_pi...
I thought El Reg did that only for Yahoo! or other silly exclamation-mark-including brands...?

Not that I read it much, of late -- could never stand Orlowski, and recently the site has been defined as "the Daily Mail of Tech", so it's not like I have much of an incentive...
These articles always tend to be quite bad.

They always address the two main questions/premisses "more women needed in tech" & "why are fewer women in tech" flippantly with weak, unthoughtful arguments & cliche explanations. Both are genuine questions that need to be addressed. Even if you are willing to accept that women need to be equally represented in tech as self evident or fundamental, you should still find out the real reasons why things are this way if you want to fix it.

Any answers that you come up with to the "why" question need to answers it in a way that doesn't equally apply to law, medicine, academics & government. Professions that women entered a generation ago.

In any case, I'm only half convinced about the economic rationale given by this article: We need women to design stuff for women. It is a definitely a real problem people designing tech products are disconnected from many of the people using tech products. But women are the one "group" that technology designing men do interact with. I think if you want to add useful perspectives something to encourage might be technology as a second career. People who spent 10 years as farmers, nurses, builders or rodeo clowns.
I generally don't capitalize words such as "a", "the", "of", etc. This isn't short words, but mostly words that are articles or conjunctions. However, as another commenter said, it's a stylistic choice.
I think it's disingenuous to chalk up the underrepresentation of women in the tech sector to merely self-selection. You really have to examine the structural issues that might cause women to select out of a well-paying, in demand career.

I'll use the legal field as an example because I think there is a lot the technology field can learn from it. Women had been allowed into law school and admitted into state bars since the turn of the century. However, as of 1960, 96% of law students were men. In the 1970s, law schools and law firms took affirmative steps to encourage women to join the profession. By the late 1990s, enrollment was almost even.

Today, 45% of law students are female as are about 45% of incoming associates at large law firms. 20% of firm partners are women, and about a third of newly-promoted partners are women. Neither law schools nor law firms take directed affirmative steps anymore to recruit women (beyond the usual affinity groups and the like). The gender equalization efforts were self-propagating. Once the field had a critical mass of women, women self-selected into the field at similar rates to men.

I think it's weak to assume that women just don't want to do engineering work. Would the number of women who wanted to go into engineering be as low today if there were a reasonable number of women already in the field? I don't think so.
This article is odd. Isn't the real issue here that there are so few female programmers, computer scientists and researchers, i.e. the people actually making tech? Whether there are insufficient numbers of women in tech company marketing roles to effectively market products at a female audience seems to be a totally separate issue and ... well, somehow less problematic to me. It also seems quite demeaning to suggest that the only reason a girl would want to get into tech is to work at targeting advertising and PR at her own gender.

How about a campaign to drastically improve science, math and computer science teaching at school from a young age, and work hard to ensure both genders get enough exposure so that the kids with the most aptitude and passion, whatever their gender, get a real chance to choose tech as a career path, instead of this marketing and PR bullshit?
Backbone is not as much opinionated as other frameworks, although you have a point here.
What I find most funny is that we're slowly evolving to full-fledged frameworks on the client. I wonder when the Spring for javascript will appear...
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the report "showed blood values whose likelihood 'of occurring naturally was less than one in a million'". Regardless of his doping, surely we'd expect there to be something extraordinary about such an athlete's physioology ?
Excuse my naivete, but I don't understand why you can't have Controllers. My understanding is that Backbone does not provide an abstraction for Controllers because, well, there's not much to abstract about them, they are just objects with some data and some functions.
Law firms took concerted efforts to recruit women into the profession. Today, those efforts are no longer necessary because the representation of women in the field (about 55/45) seems to be self-propagating.
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